Cason
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #846 for boys in 2025, 291 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 725 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,308since 1973
Cason over time
Rank among boys' names. Cason has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #846 | 291 |
| 2024 | — | #854 | 284 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #790 | 319 |
| 2022 | — | #782 | 323 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #706 | 372 |
| 2020 | — | #667 | 395 | |
| 2019 | — | #592 | 467 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #547 | 510 |
| 2017 | — | #508 | 572 | |
| 2016 | — | #466 | 655 | |
| 2015 | — | #461 | 659 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #424 | 725 |
| 2013 | — | #427 | 686 | |
| 2012 | — | #466 | 587 | |
| 2011 | — | #507 | 511 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #480 | 543 |
| 2009 | — | #539 | 489 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #573 | 449 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #721 | 318 |
| 2006 | — | #749 | 282 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #814 | 232 |
| 2004 | — | #811 | 222 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #936 | 175 |
| 2002 | — | #939 | 171 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,008 | 149 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #1,314 | 98 |
| 1999 | — | #1,189 | 108 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,558 | 68 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,574 | 63 | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,559 | 60 |
| 1994 | — | #2,392 | 32 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | — | #2,344 | 30 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,695 | 24 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,766 | 43 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,866 | 31 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,140 | 24 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #2,426 | 20 |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cason! It came in at #4,054, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1976, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Cason is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arkansas#282 · 1 in 1,063
- Mississippi#297 · 1 in 1,211
- Tennessee#306 · 1 in 1,217
- Georgia#312 · 1 in 1,397
- Kentucky#343 · 1 in 1,510
Best ever in a state: #169 in Arkansas, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #282 | 12 | 1 in 1,063 |
| Mississippi | #297 | 10 | 1 in 1,211 |
| Tennessee | #306 | 28 | 1 in 1,217 |
| Georgia | #312 | 36 | 1 in 1,397 |
| Kentucky | #343 | 13 | 1 in 1,510 |
| Alabama | #352 | 14 | 1 in 1,555 |
| Louisiana | #369 | 14 | 1 in 1,541 |
| South Carolina | #406 | 11 | 1 in 1,819 |
| North Carolina | #460 | 20 | 1 in 2,447 |
| Texas | #484 | 64 | 1 in 2,645 |
| Oklahoma | #547 | 7 | 1 in 2,535 |
| Indiana | #553 | 11 | 1 in 2,951 |
| Florida | #584 | 25 | 1 in 3,608 |
| Missouri | #585 | 9 | 1 in 3,166 |
| Ohio | #615 | 15 | 1 in 3,633 |
| Virginia | #737 | 8 | 1 in 4,833 |
| Michigan | #819 | 8 | 1 in 5,339 |
| Washington | #848 | 6 | 1 in 5,528 |
| Illinois | #875 | 9 | 1 in 6,072 |
| Pennsylvania | #959 | 7 | 1 in 7,713 |
| California | #1,306 | 14 | 1 in 13,544 |
| New York | #1,540 | 6 | 1 in 14,608 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cason
- 8 spots since 2024 (#854 → #846)
- 179 spots since 2020 (#667 → #846)
- 385 spots since 2015 (#461 → #846)
- Biggest jump: 148 spots in 2008 (#721 → #573)
- Biggest drop: 76 spots in 2022 (#706 → #782)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2014 at #424 (725 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,649 boys born in 2014 were named Cason (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,870 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 52.3% of all boys named Cason (5,915) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 73 | #2,556 (1977) | #3,537 |
| 1980s | 238 | #1,766 (1989) | #2,430 |
| 1990s | 513 | #1,189 (1999) | #1,951 |
| 2000s | 2,585 | #539 (2009) | #840 |
| 2010s | 5,915 | #424 (2014) | #488 |
| 2020s | 1,984 | #667 (2020) | #774 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cason in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 4,370 of them was named Cason, which outranked 95.3% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.